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Little Boy - Census.gov
Little Boy This gun-type uranium bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, weighed 9,700 pounds. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM. A B-29 dropped the bomb from 31,000 feet. The bomb exploded about 1,500 feet above the city with a force of 15,000 tons of TNT. The name of the plane was Enola Gay, named after the pilot s mother. The pilot, attached to the 509th, was Col. Paul Tibbets. The copilot was Capt. Robert Lewis. The bomb destroyed 5 square miles of the city and caused about 140,000 deaths by the end of Man This implosion-type plutonium bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, weighed 10,800 pounds.
Fat Man This implosion-type plutonium bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, weighed 10,800 pounds. The bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, at 11:01 AM. The B-29 Bock’s Car (named after Frederick Bock, who was the usual pilot), dropped the bomb from 29,000 feet. The bomb exploded 1,650 feet above the
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